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| Sarmatian cataphracts from Trajan's Column feature on the cover |
His take, to sum it up briefly, is that "curved" is a mistranslation that should be replaced by "angled."
Saturday, June 02, 2018
Slingshot issue 317
THE March/April 2018 edition of the Society of Ancients journal arrived today - always a highlight for me.
Most interesting of the articles from my perspective is Richard Taylor's discussion of the "curved" elephant lines at the 317BC Battle of Paraitakene (or Paraitacene).
His take, to sum it up briefly, is that "curved" is a mistranslation that should be replaced by "angled."
His take, to sum it up briefly, is that "curved" is a mistranslation that should be replaced by "angled."
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